Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  send-email: add transfer encoding header with content-type
  Doc fix for git-reflog: mention @{...} syntax, and <ref> in synopsys.
  config: clarify compression defaults
  config: correct core.loosecompression documentation

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6dc9f3ed02b2dd4a3fe439c28df7b2ba6778244d..39d1ef5298bd81868079b8d82ba56157e4785b5d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -226,13 +226,15 @@ core.compression::
        An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
        -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
        and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
+       If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
+       such as 'core.loosecompression' and 'pack.compression'.
 
 core.loosecompression::
        An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
        are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
        compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
        slowest.  If not set,  defaults to core.compression.  If that is
-       not set,  defaults to 0 (best speed).
+       not set,  defaults to 1 (best speed).
 
 core.packedGitWindowSize::
        Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
@@ -648,7 +650,9 @@ pack.compression::
        in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
        compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
        slowest.  If not set,  defaults to core.compression.  If that is
-       not set,  defaults to -1.
+       not set,  defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
+       compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
+       to level 6)."
 
 pack.deltaCacheSize::
        The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index 5c7316ceb82fbedc1413dfd8a4b1d8095b4d7a06..25003c38667940528422aab735ec0a4e9a4d5b97 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ depending on the subcommand:
 git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix] [--verbose]
        [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
 
-git reflog [show] [log-options]
+git reflog [show] [log-options] [<ref>]
 
 Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are
 updated.  This command is to manage the information recorded in it.
@@ -32,9 +32,16 @@ directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1].
 
 The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absence of any
 subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
-`HEAD`, which will cover all recent actions, including branch switches.
-It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit
---pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1].
+the reference provided in the command-line (or `HEAD`, by default).
+The reflog will cover all recent actions (HEAD reflog records branch switching
+as well).  It is an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline';
+see gitlink:git-log[1].
+
+The reflog is useful in various git commands, to specify the old value
+of a reference. For example, `HEAD@\{2\}` means "where HEAD used to be
+two moves ago", `master@\{one.week.ago\}` means "where master used to
+point to one week ago", and so on. See gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] for
+more details.
 
 
 OPTIONS

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 990e44bf02f4928392adf283ed4a36c99d31efa6..9c6fa6441a0e58abb4a212bce1dc6951683c213e 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -785,7 +785,8 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
                        else {
                                push @xh,
                                  'MIME-Version: 1.0',
-                                 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$author_encoding";
+                                 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$author_encoding",
+                                 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit';
                        }
                }
        }